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by anjbe 4y ago
Oxyana , a look into the effects opiates have had on the small town of Oceania, West Virginia. Happens to be one of the only movies I own through a DRM‐free digital download purchase, sold through Vimeo. I wish I could buy all my movies th
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by anjbe 4y ago
Any American can visualize the size of a two‐liter bottle, thanks to our addiction to soda. Three‐liter is also a commonly available size. I’ve never in my life seen anything sold in quantity of one liter here, though.
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by anjbe 4y ago
Enough time has passed that Agatha Christie’s books have started falling into the public domain in the United States. She published a new book (sometimes more) every single year from 1921 until her death, so every January we can look forwar
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by anjbe 4y ago
Well, the book was originally published in England under the name Ten Little N⸺s , and in that edition the location was named “N⸺ Island.” For obvious reasons, that title was considered unsuitable for sale in America, so American editions
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by anjbe 4y ago
The US obesity rate is over 40%! https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html
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by anjbe 4y ago
Obscenity is one of the (very few) exceptions to the First Amendment. What exactly makes something “obscene” is somewhat unclear (see the Miller test), but in practice explicit pornography, for example, is not legally considered obscene, in
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by anjbe 4y ago
“Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being c
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by anjbe 4y ago
It seemed obvious satire to me (not funny or sophisticated, but satire nonetheless). Felt like my suspicion was confirmed after seeing that other “Men of the Year” articles in the Free Beacon include “The Brothers Cuomo” ( https:/&#x2F
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by anjbe 4y ago
> All browsers implement XHTML. Internet Explorer did not. It completely refused to render XHTML pages served with an XML MIME type (application/xhtml+xml). It would only display pages if they were served with the text/html MIM
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by anjbe 4y ago
> I already make an effort to buy games on GOG or itch.io before Steam in order to have DRM-Free copies when I can. It’s important to save the offline installers too. I keep a rather large external for my GOG library.
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by anjbe 4y ago
Runtime DRM is sometimes optional with Steam, but install‐time DRM never is.
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by anjbe 4y ago
> GeForce now and xbox cloud both seem to check those boxes … You buy a game on steam or GoG or epic or whatever, than play it offline on your computer or stream via geforce now. XBox Cloud doesn’t check that box, at least not on PC. You
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by anjbe 4y ago
The Democrats could have been smarter tactically. Trump’s first SC nominee was Gorsuch, certainly conservative but a stellar jurist, and an uncharacteristically good pick from Trump (compare to the other names on his 2016 shortlist). The De
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by anjbe 4y ago
It’s strange that’s how it came across to you. The difference compared to your analogy is that Telegram’s self‐rolled crypto is a problem many messengers don’t have, and it can’t be mitigated by the client. Whereas the possibility of malici
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by anjbe 4y ago
I was a PGP enthusiast for some time, and advocated it to technical friends. In the end, though, I only ever received a single PGP‐encrypted mail from a single person. These days, I have over a dozen reliable Signal contacts, nearly all wit
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by anjbe 4y ago
I have a modicum of trust that the sensible reader understands that given the phrase “federated or not,” the subsequent phrase “a server you talk to” refers to external servers in the federation that your self‐hosted server talks to.
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by anjbe 4y ago
Not your contacts, but everyone [already using Signal] who has you as a contact. To remove that functionality would be equivalent to removing the ability to look up if a Signal message can be sent to a particular number. At least as lon
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by anjbe 4y ago
Don’t trust the server side of any service. Open source or not, federated or not, it’s impossible to verify that a server you talk to runs the code it says it does. Which leads to one of the selling points of Signal: that the client is
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by anjbe 4y ago
https://standardebooks.org/contribute/collections-policy
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by anjbe 4y ago
It’s certainly not “serious math,” but I’m rather proud of this revision I made to the MathML used for a throwaway equation in an obscure short story: https://github.com/standardebooks/fritz-leiber_short-fiction...
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by anjbe 4y ago
I’ll second Alex’s recommendations of P. G. Wodehouse (especially Jeeves Stories ) and Agatha Christie. A personal favorite of mine is Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days : https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/
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by anjbe 4y ago
Another fun example is Super Mario Land 2, where going out of bounds can lead to a “level” where blocks on screen directly correspond to general work RAM values, and breaking the block corresponding to the “game end” flag rolls the credits.
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by anjbe 4y ago
> "Very seldom" including every single Republican Presidential term for the past 30 years save one. So, twice?
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by anjbe 4y ago
There was an interesting discussion in 2019 after a group of people started cracking the passwords of the original Unix developers that had been obtained from an old /etc/passwd file in this repo ( https://github.com&#x2
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by anjbe 4y ago
I suppose that would be the same question as whether GitHub Copilot violates copyright in its code suggestions.
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by anjbe 4y ago
Fun fact: in the United Kingdom, the King James Version is still copyrighted—perpetually copyrighted, in fact—by (who else?) the British monarchy. Since the author of this app is based in the United States, he should be safe… we have a bit
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by anjbe 4y ago
Implicit end tags as described in the article have been allowed by every HTML DTD not named XHTML.
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by anjbe 4y ago
In this context (although I would dispute calling it “saner,” as someone who was fully on board the XHTML train a decade ago), an XML parser, which among other things enforces that the markup is “well‐formed” by the XML definition, thus pro
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by anjbe 4y ago
You misunderstand the spec. Exactly what confuses you is hard to discern, but perhaps you misread “the p element” as referring to the <p> start tag, when in fact the element includes the start tag, text contents, and (if present) the
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by anjbe 4y ago
It’s funny how people’s aesthetic sensibilities can differ. Making use of HTML’s standard features to drop unnecessary elements and closing tags is very much in line with my own idea of “beautiful” and “clean.” Do you consider any table tha

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